so i just got a

92 se aztek red auto.

180,000 miles, a NC car all its life

its in dire need of some TLC.

im giving it to my mom for christmas (HENCE AUTO)


so today, i ripped out all the interior, cuz it was fen nasty and stunk.

i have plenty of parts form my 90 se parts car. so im replacing the seats, carpet, dash, mostly everything. , i even washed the inside of the car. it looks damm good without carped!!!!






www.surrattracing.com/92auto

 

i particularly like the quart of oil behind the overflow tank....and the drippy battery ;x nice removal of interior. reasonable price i hope?

 

Hmm, guess welcome back should be appropriate ey?

I demand to see pictures for BEFORE and AFTER

 

Cant believe you found a VE, I never see any around here... not that I'm in the market anymore.

 

Since the car is for your mom (and not for racing) I would throw in some Dynamat and really make the interior quiet.

Good job finding and Aztec Red VE, even if it is an AT.

 

ya i was thinking of that. but i could not decide where to do it. mabey where exsiting factory sound deadning is?? or should i so it where there is no sound deadning? or just cover it all?

 

if i weren't out for a little bit of speed as well as comfort....i would personally throw that stuff everywhere i could. in one good layer of course.

 

ya, but it can get expensive. ima drive without interior and see if i can find the best places to put it

 

I would see if Matt has any input. I believe he has a nice system and Dynamat in his car.

I would think the trunk and floors, especially where there isn't any factory stuff. would be a good start.

 

idk if i should eve do the trunk, cuz there is gonna be no system, and i dont see how the trunk would effect, the cabin noise

 

A lot of noise comes through from the trunk area. Drive it on the freeway without the trunk carpet in there and see the difference.

 

Very true. I dont even have a system and I have my whole trunk done in Brown Bread from b-quiet.com. Good stuff and very affordable. Makes a world of difference in cabin noise.

 

just a thought, home depot/lowes sells something called Peel n' Seal, it's actually more of a roofing product, but it's the same thickness as that b-quiet brown bread/ultimate, at about 20% of the cost, and rolls on with a roller or by hand just like any other product.

i did the section from the buckets of the back seats, all the way up and around my rear deck area. did pretty good.

another thing i did before i decided i wanted to shed weight, was inject latex deadening foam into the body through the rear pillars, that helped decrease road noise incredibly.

I'm all about going the cheap route, as long as it's done right and works just as good as the expensive route, so if i were you, and i was doing this for my mom, not some audio engineer or gofast guy, i would look into that Peel 'n Seal stuff. it comes in 25 sq ft rolls priced at 12 - 15 bucks when i got them....


go check out this thread, it's a long Q&A thread about the PnS stuff, and comparisons and such....also before and after pics and results

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/gene...al-n-seal.html

hope i helped!

 

coool thanks for all the replies!!


well today i took the whole blower unit out, and i noticed that the stuff on the firewall, idk whats its called but its hard, and is all cracked and bascially fell right off the firewall.


can i use deadner there also??? cuz i just pulled all of the factory crap off.

pics when i get time

 

Ah yes, the old cracked black pastic lookalike thing. I'm sure that was once sound deadening as well lol. I got a lot of it off when I installed my system

 

That stuff also covers where the clutch pedal bolts in, when your doing a 5 speed swap that is.

~Alex